The European Union imposed asset freezes and visa bans on Iran’s education and culture ministers yesterday, in a fifth round of sanctions against Tehran over its crackdown on demonstrators.

The US president met Ukrainian counterpart Zelensky on his first visit to the country since the conflict started

TV and social media footage from the town of Sao Sebastiao showed entire neighborhoods under water, debris from hillside houses swept away by oozing earth, flooded highways and cars destroyed by fallen trees, among other damage

Rescue efforts in earthquake-hit Turkey were winding down yesterday, nearly two weeks after the country’s deadliest disaster in the modern era, with many praying only for bodies to mourn.

Space has “fundamentally changed” in a just a few years due to a growing arms race, a US general said, singling out China as the “most challenging threat”, followed by Russia.

A shark killed a 59-year-old Australian tourist near a crowded beach in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia yesterday, authorities said.

Russia yesterday scolded Emmanuel Macron over remarks about wanting to see Russia defeated, saying Moscow still remembered the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte and accusing the French president of duplicitous diplomacy with the Kremlin.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday warned top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi of consequences should China provide material support to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying in an interview after the two met that Washington was concerned Beijing was considering supplying weapons to Moscow.

A shark killed a 59-year-old Australian tourist near a crowded beach in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia yesterday, authorities said.

US President Joe Biden made an unannounced visit to Kyiv yesterday, and said President Vladimir Putin was “dead wrong” in his plans for the offensive in Ukraine.

The IS official, identified as Batar, was "involved in planning attacks on... detention centres and manufacturing improvised explosive devices," the US military's Central Command said

Oleksandr Shamshur, 41, is among tens of thousands of volunteers helping defend the skies over Ukraine against Russian attacks

The shiny blue sculpture, one of Koons' famous "balloon dog" series, was valued at $42,000

The death toll from an attack blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria has risen to 68, a war monitor said yesterday, the deadliest attack in over a year.

Political analysts say the United States’ criticism of Israeli settlement expansion plans is meaningless, pointing to Washington’s apparent refusal to support a UN Security Council resolution calling on Israel to halt settlements.

Microsoft’s nascent Bing chatbot turning testy or even threatening is likely because it essentially mimics what it learned from online conversations, analysts and academics have said.

Turkish rescuers yesterday pulled three people alive from the rubble 13 days after a massive quake killed tens of thousands, but one, a 12-year-old, later died.

The Biden administration formally concluded that Russia has committed “crimes against humanity” during its nearly year-long invasion of Ukraine, US Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday.

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Friday about growing ties between China and Russia, urging countries that believe in “democracy and freedom” to stand together to counter authoritarian powers.

Ukraine’s Western backers yesterday urged allies to give Ukraine what it needs to beat Russia, with Nato’s chief warning of the risks of victory for Moscow, ahead of the anniversary of the war’s outbreak.